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Cosmopolitan South Africa’s August cover star will be part of an exciting line-up of media and brand experts who will discuss the secrets of successful collaboration in spotlighting brands in magazine media at this month’s FIPP Insider events in South Africa.

Over the last couple of months, FIPP member Penske Media Corporation has made some great strides in its global expansion plans, launching in China two of its brands: WWD in mid July and Variety on 1 August. Both new editions feature a blend of original content and on-the-ground reporting that caters to Chinese language audience.

With the rapid pace of innovation and change in the world of media showing no signs of letting up, we explore the trends that industry leaders and FIPP World Media Congress speakers are seeing in the European publishing sector right now.

[Sponsored] As the publishing industry has navigated its way over the past two decades through the biggest period of disruption in its history, many publishers have turned to innovation for continued competitive advantage.

The FIPP Management Board appointed four new members at its last meeting on 27 March 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Appointed were Helen O’Donnell of BBC Studios' TalentWorks; Jonathan Wright of Dow Jones; Nikolay Malyarov of PressReader; and Nicola Murphy of The River Group.

The Digital Innovators' Summit took place on 25-26 March in Berlin. A killer line-up of world class media leaders presented the latest innovations from companies like Bloomberg, The New York Times, Axel Springer, Condé Nast International, BBC, and many more. These are our top 5 lessons from DIS2019.

“Every week you think it’s hit rock bottom, the next week it gets worse.” FIPP spoke to Matt Kelly, editor of The New European, alongside a number of other leading voices from the UK and international publishing industry, to get their views on Brexit.